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January 5, 2014 |By JAKE ELLISON

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Members of the public wearing fancy dress enter the water as they join around 1,000 New Year swimmers, many in costume, in front of the Forth Rail Bridge during the annual Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth on January 1, 2014 in South Queensferry, Scotland. An estimated eighty thousand people gathered last night in Edinburgh to see in the New Year at Hogmanay celebrations.

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Members of the public wearing fancy dress enter the water as they join around 1,000 New Year swimmers, many in costume, in front of the Forth Rail Bridge during the annual Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth on January 1, 2014 in South Queensferry, Scotland. An estimated eighty thousand people gathered last night in Edinburgh to see in the New Year at Hogmanay celebrations.